Wortley Football Club is among the community organisations in Outer West Leeds to have received council funding.
Councillors on the Outer West Community Committee agreed to provide £10,000 towards building a clubhouse on the top plateau of the grounds off Blue Hill Lane.
The club – where Premier League midfielder Kalvin Phllips started out – is putting £80,000 of its own money in and aims to become more financially sustainable through hosting its teams with matchday hospitality and end of season presentations.
Work on the new facilities is due to start in March.
Meeting chair Cllr Adrian McCluskey said the facility would be a ‘bonus’ to the people of Farnley and Wortley and paid tribute to the club as a ‘long-established local resource’.
Cllr Kate Haigh (Lab, Farnley & Wortley) also added her support, with Cllr David Blackburn (Green, Farnley & Wortley) adding: “They have come a long way since taking on the management of that land.”
The money was originally granted last year, but has been resubmitted.
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The committee also supported an application to buy eight ‘parking buddies’ safety signs for Farsley Farfield Primary School to deter dangerous parking outside the school.
Calverley & Farsley councillors Peter Carlill (Lab) and Andrew Carter (Cons) both spoke in favour of the £1,688 funding from the council’s communities team.
The outer west community committee is made up of nine councillors from three wards: Calverley & Farsley, Farnley & Wortley and Pudsey. It has four Labour, three Conservative, one independent and one Green councillor.
The meeting was moved from original venue Farnley Hall to Leeds Civic Hall earlier today.
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